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As Loran Fades, Attention Shifts to DGPS and SBAS

November 30, 2009 - By

Few precise-positioning users have employed Loran in a professional sense, although maybe you have in your personal life if you’re a airplane pilot or a mariner. Then again, if you've flown as an airline passenger or cruised onboard a ship, you've benefited from the back-up to GPS that Loran provides. That back-up is about to go away. As attention and resources shift away from Loran, they focuses more intensely on GPS augmentations, specifically differential GPS (DGPS) and satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) such as WAAS and EGNOS. read more

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A Little Q&A Follow-up and Feedback on My Last Column

November 19, 2009 - By

I received some feedback on my last column entitled "What’s the Difference Between a Used Car Salesman and a GPS Salesman?" Most of the comments were positive in that the technical content was reasonably deep and thorough. However, I did receive a couple of e-mails from folks who were offended by the comparison. read more

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Future Roles of the RPLS and GISP

November 17, 2009 - By

One of the new initiatives at Geospatial Solutions (GSS) that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago is a Surveying Section on the website. This is an area on the GSS website that’s going to be dedicated to surveyors and GISer’s who want to collaborate. By collaborating, I mean sharing ideas, sharing data, resolving conflicts and generally communicating in a... read more

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LizardTech MrSID Generation 4 Files Now Supported in Global Mapper

November 14, 2009 - By

LizardTech announced the integration of its MrSID Generation 4 (MG4) SDK into Global Mapper version 11.01. Until recently, Global Mapper’s customers were not able to load point cloud datasets that were compressed to MrSID Generation 4 using LiDAR Compressor into Global Mapper. However, with the addition of support for MG4 in Global Mapper version 11.01 users can load point cloud... read more

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GEOINT 2009

November 10, 2009 - By

The place to be if your job is intelligence and why what is where. By Art Kalinski When I was in graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Jerry Ingalls shared a succinct description of the “new” geography. He stated that old geography was merely the study of where everything was. However, new geography, with its... read more

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Where Are We Going?

November 4, 2009 - By

It occurred to me that I haven’t discussed my plans for GeoSpatial Solutions (GSS) since I assumed the editorship of GSS a couple of months ago. Some of you have told me that you thought GSS had “gone away.” True, it was somewhat dormant for awhile, but we’ve got some fantastic initiatives underway for 2010 that will renew your interest... read more

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ABB Selects Intergraph for North African Gas Pipeline Project

November 4, 2009 - By

ABB has selected Intergraph for the development of an oil and gas pipeline network and relevant facilities in North Africa. The pipeline network will be built in the El Merk field, a remote, harsh desert location in Algeria. read more

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What’s the Difference between a Used Car Salesman and a GPS Salesman?

November 3, 2009 - By

I didn’t attend the Minnesota GIS/LIS Annual Conference last week, but I received a report from someone who attended a session in which the presenter seemed to fit the maxim quite well. One of the presenter’s messages was that people should stop using WAAS immediately as a GPS correction source due to the inability of data collection software to handle the ITRF00 > NAD83/CORS96 datum shift. Following is a statement from one of his slides… read more

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